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Reeling your readers - Lesson -2 - Writing Assignment

For your writing assignment this week, select one of the vignettes you wrote last week. This will be the story that you will develop throughout the course for your final writing assignment, so make sure you like and are comfortable with the vignette you select. You may use the same vignette you used for your Exercise this week if you want, or you may explore a different one.

Thinking about what we learned this week about point of view and narrative voice, choose the point of view you think you want to write your final assignment story in. Now rewrite that vignette - in your chosen point of view - into a 300 to 400 word scene. It should end up being a pivotal scene for your story that you will use later on, as you complete your final writing assignment.

Remember: You may write this story/vignette in any genre you want. You are not limited to the "Here & Now." Be creative and imaginative as you work with your everyday experience and build it into a story that captures and holds your reader to entranced The End.

Hey there, I'm Ayesha. I'm completely alien to this new country called Bangladesh. You know, the first problem I always face here, is language. None of the people here knows Turkish, and I'm originally from Istanbul, Turkey.

I'm just 17, a confused teen who's even more confused here now. Come on, I do not know anything extraordinary about Bangladesh. Here, the taxi cabs are rather expensive. They use this bicycle type, hooded up thing, mostly driven by human vehicle called the rickshaw as a common mode of transport. Yes, these are quite cheap. And of course, comfortable too. I love the way the breeze sweeps past my long hair as I travel in a rickshaw.

Some rickshaws are motor operated too. Unfortunately, the drivers who pull these are snobbish, and demand more fare than usual at times. I always have to keep some change in my purse as "rickshaw money".

Bangla, is not as difficult as English. Allah! Those words! I always make a disgusted face whenever I come across a new English word. No English! Turkish please!

I normally cannot keep my hair confined in a Hijab

Just a hat like religious wear for Muslims

as some of the muslims here does. I like putting on a simple pair of jeans or trousers and a top, unlike the usual clothes for the females here.

Sometimes, men from a certain class leer at me and my attires. Hey come on, dress is a reflection of my personality, so why should I dress up in a way which does not reflect the real me?

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